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criteria to distinguish resultative from stative participles?
I was recently reading an article by David Embick (2004) in which he makes a ternary distinction among passive participles: 1. stative 2. resultative 3. eventive, contra. Wasow (1977) who ...
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Suppletion of Spanish "matar" (to kill) by "morir" (to die) in the passive
When saying someone 'was killed' in Spanish in the passive voice, muerto, the past participle of morir ("to die") is used:
«Selicho fue muerto a golpes por sus propios funcionarios»
Galeano ...
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